Anne Ayalon
Anne Ayalon is the Director of Hod Ayalon, a private consulting firm for business-to-business marketing solutions, and Founder and President of ICC-Galilee Properties Management Ltd., a property development company that invests in real estate for developing the Galilee. As Founder and President of Friends of Israel Arts, a not-for-profit organization, she gives much of her time to promoting Israeli arts in the U.S. as a means for building cultural understanding of Israel. As the wife of Israel’s Deputy Foreign Minister and former Ambassador to the U.S., Anne has traveled extensively, lecturing about the facts and realities of Israel, and championing causes that build communications and joint efforts between American and Israeli organizations, in the spheres of culture, and interfaith relations, educating Christians about Israel, and about Judaism as the heritage and basis of their beliefs.
For the past 25 years Anne has been involved primarily in business-to-business marketing and has served in numerous senior management positions in the hi-tech industry prior to founding Springboard, a marketing consulting firm. A U.S. citizen, she was graduated from Michigan State University with a degree in Hotel Management, and holds an MBA from Bowling Green State University in Ohio, specializing in international business. It was her work in the hotel industry with Hilton International that first brought her to Israel in 1978, where she lives with her husband and two daughters.
Jonathan Bash
Jonathan Bash grew up in Essex, England before moving to Jerusalem. He is married to Kim and they have 3 children. He became observant through Aish UK, and continued his Jewish education in Aish Jerusalem in the Old City, where he is now studying to become a Rabbi.
He has a Law Degree and a Masters in Information Technology and is a Director of a UK Health Care firm. He is one of the founders of HonestReporting.com and JerusalemOnlineUniversity.com (formerly Aishcafe.com), and has recently launched FreeMiddleEast.com - which provides a new approach to Israel Activism.
Amy Holtz
Amy Holtz owned and operated a chain of 25 franchised Party City stores for 15 years. She sold the chain in November, 2007. Prior to that she practiced law at Blank, Rome in Philadelphia and Arent, Fox in Washington, D.C. Amy is on Jewish National Fund’s PA eastern Region Board of Directors and the National Center for Hebrew Language Charter School Excellence and Development board. Amy is also actively involved in JerusalemOnlineUniveristy.com’s daily operations.
Rabbi Raphael Shore
As Founder of JerusalemOnlineUniversity.com, Rabbi Raphael Shore presented the vision for all aspects of the innovative Jewish distance learning portal. Shore is an independent educator, and producer of critically-acclaimed independent films. He previously served as chief operating officer of world-renowned Jewish outreach organization Aish Hatorah International. In addition, Shore has worked as an international analyst of Middle East issues and has been interviewed by CNN, The New York Times, and other leading media organizations. No matter what project Shore is spearheading, his dedication to Judaism and education is a strong inspirational force.
Orna Shulman
Ms. Shulman began her career in finance as a practicing commercial attorney. For over 12 years, Ms. Shulman served as Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Chief Operating Officer of Intertech Corporation, a privately held investment and real estate development company. In that capacity, Ms. Shulman oversaw the purchase, development, repositioning and disposition of approximately 6 million square feet of hotels, retail centers, commercial buildings and residential properties with a market value of one billion dollars. During her tenure, the return on equity exceeded eightfold.
Concurrently at Intertech she also managed a private equity portfolio consisting of early stage investments in high tech and biotech start-ups in the U.S. and Israel.
Building on her real estate background, Ms. Shulman established OLS Ventures, LLC, a cross-border investment company in 2002. At OLS Ventures, she manages her portfolio as well as advises companies, high net worth individuals, family trusts and family offices in alternative investments, opportunistic real estate and early stage high tech. Ms. Shulman’s knowledge and experience in financial structuring, and sourcing capital and ability to evaluate risk are key to her success in U.S. and Israeli investments. She spends substantial time in Israel where she maintains a home.
Ms. Shulman is committed to the non-profit world. She presently serves on the Boards of Directors of New Yorkers for Children, the Middle East Forum and JerusalemOnlineU.com. She is a member of the Young Presidents Organization. In addition, for many years she was a member of the Board of Directors of the Museum at Eldridge Street, the Board of Advisors of the Lang Institute for Entrepreneurship at Columbia Business School and the Women’s Board at the Kennedy School at Harvard University. She is an avid collector of European cubist art and decorative objects from the first half of the twentieth century, emanating from her interest in history, art and social change. She pursues this serious avocation in her writings and contributions of her work to many museum exhibitions all over the world. She graduated cum laude from Tufts University with a B.A. in History and earned a law degree from the Washington College of Law at the American University.
David Solomon
As President of NAI ReStore, David Solomon serves as the worldwide leader for NAI Global retail services. He works closely with NAI retail professionals and clients to increase their speed and efficiency in the acquisition, leasing and sale of retail properties. NAI ReStore leverages the local market knowledge and expertise of NAI retail specialists worldwide and NAI Global’s well established infrastructure and technology to provide comprehensive site selection, tenant representation, acquisition, disposition, investment sales, valuation and project management services.
Solomon has extensive experience as a retail real estate advisor and retailer. In 1990 he founded a brokerage firm that would become one of the largest retail tenant representation and property management firms in the United States. He later founded the 20-store Israel franchise of Toys “R” Us. Solomon also founded a nationwide chain of DVD kiosks that operated inside leading retailers such as Albertson’s and Barnes & Noble College Bookstores. It was sold in 2006 to an affiliate of McDonald’s that now has over 4,000 units nationwide.
Additionally, Solomon’s family has invested in and owned numerous shopping centers and was among the founding investors in retail companies such as Zany Brainy and Mid-Atlantic Restaurant Systems (the largest Boston Chicken franchisee). He has worked with a wide range of leading retailers as an advisor and as a principal during periods of rapid growth to better manage the real estate process and add value to their portfolios.
Scott Weitz
A veteran advertising executive producer, Scott Weitz is CEO and co-founder of Driver Media and Driver Digital is an independent high-end production-outsourcing company to service ad agencies and creative clients. Driver Media oversees 65 million annually on behalf of the worlds premier brands and advertising agencies such as Microsoft, Pepsi Frito Lay, ATT, ABC News, Tropicana, Coke, Toyota, Phillips, MSNBC, Canon Cameras, ask.com, match.com, and GM. Driver works with leading stars such as Julia Dreyfus , Sting, Tiger Woods, Maria Sharapova . Building on the success of Driver Media, Weitz and his long time partner JD Williams founded, Driver Digital, a venture backed division focused on the social media and technology involved in delivering content to consumers. The company has offices in New York and Los Angeles.
